Re: Reasons Front Gate Tickets is a complete JOKE

Originally Posted by euphonicfiend

Well I must have gotten super lucky. I had one window open, I was on at 10am - Had ticket and camping by 10:30am. Just seems with that the odds would be against me with everyone having multiple windows open vs my lonely one window.

Re: Reasons Front Gate Tickets is a complete JOKE

Originally Posted by TomAz

I had one window open as well, on at 10am, ticket purchased by 10:10.

I had a window open at 9:58 and I didn't get in until after 11:10. Doesn't seem to be any rhyme or reason to how people were "selected" from the stand-by room. However, as long as you got in when it still said your chances were "looking good" and you didn't close or refresh the window, then I am pretty sure you were able to eventually get a pass.

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Re: Reasons Front Gate Tickets is a complete JOKE

Originally Posted by Goatchella

yes..it was pretty easy. The ticket system works great if you are on top of things.

Not sure how you can conclude that this is true. The data (such as it is, just a bunch of anecdotes on here) seems to suggest it's a mixed bag which means there's room for improvement. It worked great for me and others; it didn't work great for some other people though. I'm not ready to conclude that the people it didn't work for weren't "on top of things".

Re: Reasons Front Gate Tickets is a complete JOKE

I had 2 computers - I got both weekends by 10:55 am. That includes making a mistake in ordering and having to get through 3 times. I did a lot of work while watching the screen from the corner of my eye.

Re: Reasons Front Gate Tickets is a complete JOKE

How does one "almost" not get tickets? You either got them. Or you didn't. There is no in between. Black/White. Front Gate was fine this year. Not perfect. But ok.

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Re: Reasons Front Gate Tickets is a complete JOKE

I'd almost be willing to bet they had a far lesser cap on tickets for presale this year than last. Keeping in mind it took me nearly FOUR HOURS of dealing with the waiting room crap last year. Tickets were "gone" in less than 4 hours this year.

Count on a price increase for general sale, really no other reason to cut off sales.

Re: Reasons Front Gate Tickets is a complete JOKE

i got weekend 1 tickets last year around the 3rd day of presale. i checked back towards the "end of the week" and discovered the weekend 1 were sold out at which point i checked weekend 2 and still there were some available.
i had a crazy busy thursday morning when my nephew texted 'got em' after waiting room screen for about an hour, at which point i figured i'd see what i could get. i had only one browser open @ 11 and opened a second around 11:15 for weekend 2 after i got the notice "weekend 1 will surely sell out so check weekend 2" notice. after waiting about 40 minutes, i got weekend 1. i followed up to purchase weekend 2 which opened about 5 minutes into weekend 1 purchase because i need 4 tickets to bring my kids again. hoping for a trade next year to do so. tried to get back on to get more but was blocked. i was glad to use frontgate as ticketmaster still doesn't sit well with me since pj's attempted revolt.
that said, i remember years ago - maybe 2004 or5, getting presale discount before lineup was announced through dukatking or some promoter. since it hasn't happened since, i have usually bought presale at least one pair straight out, but this year opted to split: weekend 1 - purchased and 2 is on layaway. i've always thought the layaway was ingenious, but now can't stop thinking what a bummer it will be in 2014 to be in a lottery.
my llth cchella was this year and my kids are now just getting into it... praying for loyalty perks (: paz and <3 to all, all ways and always1.

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Re: Reasons Front Gate Tickets is a complete JOKE

Originally Posted by TomAz

I had one window open as well, on at 10am, ticket purchased by 10:10.

i had one window open at 10:01AM, and waited about 40 minutes and it was still telling me i was "getting close" for weekend 1. my friend had like 6 windows open, got her tickets within 30 minutes, then another window got her in again within minutes... i gave her my login information and she was able to secure our weekend 1 and camping.

once i got my confirmation email and clicked on it i was able to log in immediately and buy as many additional tickets as i wanted, and could log in using my friends information and secured their tickets.

Re: Reasons Front Gate Tickets is a complete JOKE

Well, it's not THAT flawed because you need another credit card/name/whatever to buy more tickets. You can't just repeatedly log in and order more tickets on your card, there's a "2 ticket per household" limit. I saw several people on this board graciously order tickets for other members, so it just seems to me that this bug only seemed to benefit a lot of people here.

Re: Reasons Front Gate Tickets is a complete JOKE

Originally Posted by thebestever

i had one window open at 10:01AM, and waited about 40 minutes and it was still telling me i was "getting close" for weekend 1. my friend had like 6 windows open, got her tickets within 30 minutes, then another window got her in again within minutes... i gave her my login information and she was able to secure our weekend 1 and camping.

once i got my confirmation email and clicked on it i was able to log in immediately and buy as many additional tickets as i wanted, and could log in using my friends information and secured their tickets.

definitely flawed.

You're welcome.

Originally Posted by microcuts

Well, it's not THAT flawed because you need another credit card/name/whatever to buy more tickets. You can't just repeatedly log in and order more tickets on your card, there's a "2 ticket per household" limit. I saw several people on this board graciously order tickets for other members, so it just seems to me that this bug only seemed to benefit a lot of people here.

That "bug" did benefit our group big time. After I got my passes, and realized I can just log back in immediately under a different account, I ended up purchasing passes for 4 other people. I even offered to get passes for people on the boards. I rather have people on the boards get passes than some unknown who may try to scalp it.

Re: Reasons Front Gate Tickets is a complete JOKE

I had 2 lap tops open so I could purchase 4 passes. I was able to get in on one of them after 16 minutes and purchase 2. When I hit "print receipt" it logged me out of my husbands account and back to the order page. I was able to sign in under my account and order my other 2 passes (2 different credit cards). My other lap top sat in the waiting room the entire time.